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MEMENLY MESSENGER 



OR, 




APPEALS TO THE METHODISTS, 



BY- 



GILBERT HAVEN, 

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(Late Bishop of the Methodist Church), 

WITH ADDITIONAL INTERESTING SPIRIT MESSAGES FROM 
LINCOLN, GRANT, SUMNER, BEECHER, WESLEY, 
LUTHER, AND OTHERS. 



Twenty-second Edition, 



PUBLISHED BY 

S. M. BALDWIN, 

NO. 1202 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, 

WASHINGTON, D. C* - 

1892. 



Price Ten Ce^stts. 









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APPEALS TO THE METHODISTS. 

BY 

Gilbert Haven, 

Late Bishop of the Methodist Church, lining them to be- 
come true Christians, by obeying the Apostle who said: 
"Add to your faith hnowhdgt; Prove all things, hold fast 
that which is good." — After ten years in Spirit life, the 
Bishop finds that true Apostolic religion, as taught by 
JeeOfl and the Apostles, and pure spiritualism, are the 
same thing. 

"In my fathers house are many mansions." — "There \9 
no death, nothing but change." — Other well known clergy- 
men from the higher life declare that primitive Christianity 
and true spiritualism are identical. — They all with one 
accord, lament over wasted opportunities. — Let the Clergy 
and others heed the message of Bishop Haven and they 
will enjoy pleasant nemories, when we shall all confer 
together in the higher life. 

"When we consider that the greatest proof of the immor- 
tality of man, has been spurned by the church, then can we 
see how we have crippled ourselves." — Gilbert Haven, set 
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Sketch of the Earth Life of 
Gilbert Haven. 



Gilbert Haven was born Sept. 19, 1821, at Malden> 
Mass. Said his venerable mother, " He was an active lado 
and though by no means a bad boy, he gave me more ' 
trouble than all the rest of the family put together. If 
there was anything going on, he was always at the head 
of it." 

At the age of eighteen he was studying at Wesleyan 
Academy, "Wilbraham, Mass. He entered Wesleyan Uni- 
versity in 1842, at Middletown, Ct. After graduating he 
taught Greek and Latin in Amenia Seminary, N. Y., and 
in two years he was elected its principal. There he found 
his future wife, who was a pupil, by the name of Mary In- 
graham, to whom he was married Sept. 17, 1851. 

Pastor Haven entered the regular work of the minis- 
try in 1851. His first pastorate was at Northampton, 
Mass. During all the early part of his clerical career he 
was a very active Abolitionist. His beloved Mary died 
April 30, 1860, and soon after in great sorrow he entered 
the army as chaplain of the Eighth Massachusetts Volun- 
teers. 

In 1867 Gilbert Haven became editor of Zion'x Herald 
and Wesleyan Journal. 

In 1872 he was elected Bishop, after a stormy session of 
the General Conference in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

" His election" says Bishop Foster in his memorable 
funeral oration ; " was not only a surprise, but it awakened 
a question of doubt in many of the purest, best, and great- 
est, whether it was wise or judicious. Thank God he lived 
eight years to demonstrate the wisdom of that action." 

Bishop Haven was stationed at Atlanta, Georgia. Here 
he distinguished himself as the friend of the colored n 

On the first of November, 1876, Bishop Haven sailed 
for Monrovia, Liberia, iii West Africa, having been sent 
to visit the missions, by the Methodist church. He spent 
forty-six days in Africa, preaching and visiting. He left 
in good health, as he supposed, but the taint of malaria 



showed itself on shipboard and he never after recovered 
from (lie poison in his blood, taken in by living on that 
. oast. 

\i four years it ws it with coming death. 

He pi . held conferences, wrote, visited, keeping death 

at bay, with splendid courage, bul al lasl he succumbed, 
aud . . u Went to Heavenby vtray of Afri 

Saturday, Jan. 3, L880. 

The doy before his transition he said : i> h is so delight- 

,1 dying— it is pleasant— the angels are here — God lifts 

;> in his arms. 1 cannot see the river of death — there 

i river, it is all light — [ am floating away from earth 

up into heaven- liding away unto A few 

hours before he d he Baid : •• A □ the 

Lord, I shall want to rest for thousand years with 

my head in tin lap of my Mary." 

II* out from his home in Maiden, Mass., and the 

; Lence. Bishops 
Foster, Harris; Revs. Dr u&Growi . CJpham, 

Vv". ] lieu, George Prentice, Daniel Steele. The 

. J. W. Bamilton and th< ble Father Mars took 

part in the s •vice, under the 'direction of the Mai- 

den pastor, Dr. Joseph Cumi 

This little I - written by the hand of a most ex- 

cellent mechanical writin ium in Springfield, Mass., 

in February, 1890. The lady's hand moved with great 
rapidity and without any apparent action of her will. She 
declared that Bhe had no thought of what was to be penned, 
and the movement of her hand was independent of her 
velition. 

The medium is well known to the publishers, and they 
can endorse her truthfulness and her mediumship. 

Those who wish to obtain copies, can address the pub- 
lishers, as below. Price 5 cents each copy; §3.00 per 
hundred. Sent free to clergymen, reading rooms, and 
to those unable to pay. 

Address S. M. BALDWIN, 
1202 Pennsylvania Ave., "Washington, D. C. 



Gilbert Haven, 

(Late Bishop of the Methodist Church,) 

Appeals to the Methodists. 

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Chapter First. 

I wish to send out to those, who, in my own and in 
other denominations, are denouncing the belief in Spirit- 
ualism, as of the Devil ; a statement of how I know it i9 
true ; and though 1 have not lost my love for my people 
or my love for the sacraments of the church, I would like 
to have our people know just how this life seems to me, 
and what my actual experiences 

So much have I lived in sympathy with my people, so 
dear has every thing connected with the grand old church, 
become to me, that I find I must follow up its inter 
and if possible, help to throw about it an atmosphere of 
cession, born of my experiences. 

My mind had at times, while on earth, dwelt upon this 
subject of ever knowing each other in the life over 1 ' 
So wrought up had T become in the ideal life, that 1 had 
felt that natural i 3ts of earth, would 

all be swallowed up in the everlasting glory of the Lord 
- Christ. 

I was therefore, quite surprised to find, when I knew 
the greatest of life's changes had overtaken me, and I had 
stepped into the heaven dreamed of, that I had a desire to 
see my own, a gladness that the dear ones of other days, 



" Isn't it probable if you tell a man anything, be will know 
enough to it, especially an intelligent one? 

Mother Baid, " No, not always," and then added, " we, 
who came over with onlythe A— i>— C of^he law learned, 
must finish our Lessons in a new school." 

It was a new experience, in which I had no railroad 
guides, but the locomotive -hid, the 

line bo direct that it was a new triumph to me, to find 
myself fa uch that would be of 

use to the chun h, its blac and its white sheep, were 

to be discussed. 

Hearing Borne tfthe questions brought up, in which I 
was most interested, I quietlj '.< ft my back seat, as I did 
not care to openly take up the cudgel, and found a scat 
next to brother A. r knew it would soon be his turn to 
Lj and as I fa bim, he looked around, not very 

cordially to the man on my right, while I poured into his 
ear mv ideas upon th • I now knew his attention 

was given to the Bpeaker, and that his hesitating attitude 
was for him, not for mej but still I thought I was making 
a deep impression on bim. 

What was my surprise, to hear him burst out in the 
mos f scathing remarks; entirely antagonistic to all I had 
counselled him to say. Accustomed to be a leader, I has- 
tily protested, but I saw no signs of approval or disapprov- 
al,* and after a little, I perceived my mighty efforts were 
unavailing. My form which seemed to me so buoyant 
with youth, was unseen, and the burning words I had ut- 
tered, had fallen on deaf ear-. 

In an agony at my own weakness, my disappointment 
overcame me, until a tender voice reached me, and I was- 
told I had a law to learn, whereby the deaf could hear, the 
mute have a voice, and the blinded ones be compelled to< 
drop tne scales from their eyes. 



I soon learned that though I might be felt, I could not 
be heard, and even the impulses that I would throw over 
those near me, were destroyed by the culminating force of 
their own thoughts. 

Gilbert Havex. 

February 12, 1890. 



Chapter Second. 

I would like to impress upon the brothers and sisters in 
the church of which I am no longer a Bishop, only a plain 
layman, the truths of spirit return. I want, whereas here- 
tofore, the}' have stretched the holy word, to find that 
spirit return is not true, that they will now devote equal 
energy in finding that it is true. And first I would like 
them to pay great heed to the teachings and the promises of 
Christ. He never promised a time when the power of the 
spirit should not be felt, but he said he would show it more 
abundantly. He cast out evil spirits from the mediums of 
the olden days : he told them to encourage the good spirits. 
In the Xcw Testament he made John say, " try the spirits/' 
showing that John and the people of that time knew there 
could be two kinds of spirits ; and therefore, if there was a 
way to try them, they must realize the power of the spirit- 
enough to know whether it was good or bad. 

If in those days Paul wrote letters to the Corinthians, 
inspired by the power of those behind him, when was the 
time that was foretold by seer or prophet, when this eon- 
trolling power should cease '.' 

The life of Jesus of Nazareth was one of spiritual en- 
foldment and those that He attracted to Himself in those 
days, soon had the power upon them. He did not call 
them His disciples until they could do the work that He 
did. He reproved them for want of faith. 



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He said "marvel not." He showed all through His life, 
the natural law which caused these works to be done by 
Him. He did not call Himself the God, but was the sim- 
ple, kindly Son, who said He must be about His Father's 
business. And when Looking into the future with His great 
gift of prophecy, He spoke of those who should come after 
him and how greater works than he did they should do* 
They should heal the sick, cast out devil-, and speak with 
new tongues. "They shall take up serpents and if they 
drink of any deadly thing it shall not hurt them and they 
shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." He 
said these signs shall follow them that believe 

In looking over the records of the church, I see such 
utter disbelief that the words of Jesus were true, as to make 
me regret my own narrow conceptions of God's goodm 

What does the church do when the signs begin to follow? 
What do they do when the real spirit of power descends? 
Noble men and women have been ignored, and by the 
coldness of professed Christian-, cast out into the world, 
subject to the teachings of infidelity and ungodliness. If 
there come among you one who has the promise ful- 
filled, he or she is looked upon with distrust. Let them 
heal the sick, try laying on of hands, and very soon they are 
turned over to the Spiritualists. 

If the church to-day, would keep within its ranks, those 
endowed with a "gift," let them use that gift as sacred 
from the hands of the Divine. If there should come in 
the church one who could "cast out devils" and be able by 
a spirit of divine truth, to cast out the obsessing spirits, 
the lying spirits, the spirits of envy, malice and all un- 
charitableness, then indeed would His will be done, on 
earth. 

When we consider that the greatest proof of the immor- 
tality of man, has been spurned by the church, then can we 



see how we have crippled ourselves. Instead of ignoring 
one truth, or calling everything a lie that we do not under- 
stand, if we would try the spirits, the power of true holi- 
ness would have such progress as never before. 

If you could believe that I, Gilbert Haven, who loved 
his flock as few shepherds do, and was willing to sacrifice 
for them, had now found God's word so true, that he could 
literally appear in your midst as others appeared on the 
mountain, or come to one of you, or many of you, as the 
spirit that said "write," did to John on the isle of Patnios, 
what effect would it have on your lives? If as in olden 
times, I could not come to the multitudes, but just a few 
witnesses and send word to you, would you believe these 
living witnesses as you believe the record of the olden 
times? Nay, I fear if these witnesses were in my old 
church, and among my old friends, mayhap, who should 
say they had seen and heard from me, I fear the church 
doors would close upon them, and you would deplore their 
degeneracy, while you would sit down and comment upon 
some lesson in the Bible, where angels appeared and where 
spirits led Peter out of prison, and where the "stone was 
rolled away," and how the "Lord spake to Moses," how 
the sick were healed; the blind made to see and the poor 
had the gospel preached to them. 

You put God and His power too far back, and too far 
ahead. It is what he has done hundreds and thousands of 
years ago and what he is going to do in the thousands of 
years to come, but not what he is doing now. You forget 
the connecting link and step over the "now" as though the 
daily miracle of his power was not ^ctin^ on. 

You will yet be calmed upon a sultry sea, if you do not 
begin to use your power more effectively. Time will come 
when your people will listen to inspired utterances from 
the pulpitjinstead of the liberal productions from the study 



of years. Time will come when the spirits, not of the proph- 
but of some loved one, will dare to say under loftiest 
dome and spire, " I m call dead am here," and fche 

treasured teachin >me loved one will be continued, 

though an interruption has <• I, in which the spirit 

has thrown off its 

You will say I don't believe a word of it: it' Bishop 
Haven knows what out lie will Stay in Heaven — 

and so he does, but as Heaven is the dwelling place of 
I, and Gjp it not natural that he 

should make his heaven where hi at home? K 

the spirits within year church if you want prosperity — 
first the spirit I — secondly the spirits of those who 

have passed on before, and have a Lesson lor you. 

In enir ; with M ier, not long ago, he said 

that one ot the ureat. 3 of hi- earth existence 

that he did not, right in his church, utilize that which he 
knew to he ti Lism. " Remember, I do not 

mean that which ignore- the Bible," said he, "but that 
which answers more than any other religion. ' If a man 
die, shall lie live again? 1 But when my people would 
have made a confident of me, as to some demonstrations 
that had occurred to themselves or family, I turned them 
olf with the feeling that I had no sympathy with them. 
Oh, that I could live on earth and be strong again," said 
he, "for many turned away from us that would have been- 
a power among us." 

I had the same experience; believing in my heart, I was 
afraid it was heresy to preach it: I sometimes have 
faith that this will reach the eyes of one who gave me an 
exhibition of her mediumistic power through the raps, and 
I had that come to me, which was convincing proof of the 
presence of a dearly loved one. "What would you do?" 
she said to me. "Would you sit for them as they asked me- 



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to?" and I, shame upon mo, who had just heard from 
heaven, said, , I guess it wont do," and caused her 

to grieve the spirit ; and to-day she longs for the develop- 
ment that we thrust away so carelessly, Hundreds in our 
ranks are grieving the spirit?, some through fear that it will 
be wrong, others fear the ridicule that would be heaped 
upon them. 

Our church has had its lessons in what wo called the 
"power of the Lord," until pride became stronger than 
principle, and we had to dictate to the Lord how the busi- 
ness should be done up, in a more stylish way. We have 
drowned out nearly all manifestations of the spirit. To 
fall on the ground now a days, as they did in olden times, 
would be cause for an usher to put you out. 

Do not imagine, that the people of the church willingly 
go down by the "cold streams of Babylon," when modern 
improvements and modern Christianity thrust them there. 
Do not prescribe rules which the Lord Jesus Christ never 
thought of prescribing. Keep more in harmony with the 
inner life, and the inner light, but remember you cannot 
change the law. You may hinder it in its fulfillment, but 
change it, never. Gilbert Haven. 



Chapter Third. 



I would have my people believe, that as far as this phe- 
nomena is concerned, there is really "nothing now under 
the sun," that history is repeating itself with unerring pre- 
cision; and that the ultimate will be that spirit commun- 
ion will be an established tact. 

But I would warn my people not to let it disturb them 
but rather make them stand more closely by the living 
truths, as taught by Jesus of Nazareth. 



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I would have you look more to your lives; more to the 
purpose of them ; more to your every day life. And my 
brothers and sisters, don't depend too largely upon for- 
givenness! If you are bad, if your lives are corrupt, they 
are going to meet you. Redemption is of slower growth 
than you suppose. The spirit must stand out with some- 
thing to recommend it. Clinging as closely as I did to 
the cross, believeing as I did in the blood, yet I have had 
intense sorrow for sin. 

Don't say, 1 want you to throw away Christ, for this is 
not so ; but I would have you glorify him. You can 
learn to live rightly, and behave toward your fellowmen 
in a right way, far better than you can overcome the con- 
sequences of sin. 

I know you will refer to what the Master said, "To-day 
ehalt thou be with me in Paradise," but it doesn't say how 
long before that time it was, when the thief stole. He 
might have, by right living and sorrow, atoned for all the 
wrong he had done ; he might have made amends and 
have been so sorry, that the Saviour saw it, and knew that 
he was at last worthy to enter the kingdom. But it is 
better not to be a thief; it is better on all life's journey to 
live so near the principles of right that you will not need 
to be forgiven so much. 

Lead a life in your religion as in your business, one of 
common sense, and do not shut your eyes to truths, which 
are self evident. If every one of you were pinned down 
and had to tell your opinion, after a careful reading of 
the Biblw, you would say, "I believe from Biblical evi- 
dence that they are near v*s ;" and when you take a step 
further some of you will say, you believe in the manifes- 
tations of the spirit to the dying, or in dreams and visions. 
Let your heart and intellect lead you a step further and 
be assured that to many of you may come these teach- 



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ings that will open the eyes of those, blinded by material- 
ism, to the immortal truths ot' the Bible. 

Now do not waste your time, saying, " It is sacrilege to 
say that dear Brother Haven ever had ought to do with 
such writings as these. Don't abuse the source, but study 
the writings and think. Read your Bibles more carefully 
and see how you have narrowed your lives, limited your 
God by your own conceptions of Him, and begin to sit 
prayerfully and earnestly for some manifestation. Or do 
you want the wail of the olden time repeated? u Neither 
will they be persuaded though one rose from the (lead." 

Your first impulse will be to denounce and get the press 
to publish your displeasure. But stop! I say. See if 
you do not find gleams of truth shining out from these 
pages ; see if you find ought that would shipwreck you 
mentally or morally. 

I do not take; the Christ away. I hold him up as a 
more beautiful friend, comforter, nay, redeemer in a sense, 
than ever, I do not take away your Bibles, but I ask you 
to be wise and practical in reading them. You do not do 
now as the word reads. Who of you turn the other cheek 
for the blow? give the coat when the cloak is stolen? 
Who of you forgive seventy times seven ? Why brothers 
and sisters, I have seen the foundations of a church shaken 
by its most prosperous members leaving, because they 
were not willing to forgive one ! 

The Bible tells you to "take no thought of the morrow" 
and to "consider the lillics ; ?> and yet you go on, piling up 
your wealth as though you were going to live in that life 
a thousand years. 

You are told that you must "judge not that ye be not 
judged," but you go on judging; and when you are told 
to love your enemies, you hate them cordially. You do 
not do good to those who persecute you. Who of you 



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Lave been merciful and expect to obtain it in proportion 
as you have been so to others? How large would be your 
■hare ? 

AVho of you are living pore-hearted enough to see God? 
Who of you can take the chapter of blessings and apply 
it to you saying, this means me ? Ami still, with 

your lack of faith in God's word, your laxity in 
His commandments, when I ask you t<> study the law of 
spirit, you arc afraid some will accuse you of trying to 
peer into mysteries not intended. 

You need I . you will never know too much; 

think y<m believe, but th< Ing comes from the prac- 

tice. So now 1 exhort you, first in the name of truth, to 
study these questions, [f you do not welcome them r 
selves and make them a pari "I" your By stem, one by one, 
your members will glide out in 
will fmd the infl high p] 

More and more is it becomi :l that lit- 

is a church member i r him rr ure. 

People are growing moie Literal and calling things by their 
names, and you will find that the money support will 
decrease, unl< c churches come up to the present 

light. People want the kernal, which they can see and 
feel, and not the husl 

This is the only time I have been permitted to give my 
views in any extended wav since my earthly lips were 
sealed in silence ; but my spiritual nature has been quick- 
ened. I grasp at the fore-ehadowings of the future, be- 
cause I see more clearly ; and in my love for the church, I 
make this protest against the old time bigotry ; the old 
time superstition ; the old time presentation of the truth, 
as being any more summoned up in the words, "For 
Christ's sake." 

I warn you, if you do not want your thinking ones to 



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go out into Spiritualism, to bring Spiritualism in the 
purest sense into the church. Hundreds are seeking sur- 
reptitiously that which every one should be free to seek in 
the broad light of day. 

Form your circles among the people of your flock and 
wait for inspiration. Do not preach it when you do not 
have an idea of its meaning. Do not Bpeak of guardian 
angels as a thing of the past, and I pray you, do not cover 
the valley of the shadow of death, with mists so impene- 
trable, that even the children of God will shudder to think 
of the way they must go. Light it up with angels ; and 
make your angels those who loved you here. Change the 
current of your lives and see what you can now do to 
bring spirit into your religion and give it again some sem- 
blance of the precepts of Jesus of Nazareth. 

Oh! unbelieving ones, see that you chase away the 
shadows of doubt and wrong and welcome to your; lives 
the light that is to "light every man that cometh into the 
world." Weary and heavy laden ones, you who are bear- 
ing a cross too heavy to be borne; you who feel your 
strength ebbing away in the coniliet, and are losing your 
hold on faith, look up, reach out and have the knowledge 
that your father, mother, brother, sister or child, stand 
in the open doorway of the other life, ready to take your 
hand and lead you where your feet will not slip, nor your 
heads be any more cast down ; for they shall be the inter- 
preters; the meditators between you and the Divine. 

I appeal to you; scorn not that which will bring souls 
to the light, and learn how natural ir is for this spirit of 
love to reach down to the sorrowing and up to the 
heaven. You will think of these words, even if you disbe- 
lieve them ; and to those who have the gift of the discerning 
of spirits, I will come and prove my words true. 

Gilbert Havkn . 



14 
A TRIBUTE FROM AN OLD FRIEND. 



These pages speak of Gilbert Haven, a minister of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church and a Bishop of its commun- 
ion, who regarded titles a9 of little worth. Nay, Gilbert 

Haven speaks for himself. " Sis eye is not dim, nor the 
spiritual force abated " in the least by his decarnation. 

He makes his appeal from the hither side of the Jordan of 
life, to his brothers and Bisters of the old church which he 
so much loved and in whose service he passed from the 
mortal. 

Though he has left the mortal, yet Haven, as he was in 
the mortal, Btands clearly before my mind. These were 
his leading characteristics : intense humanitarianism : keen 
of social justice ; transparency of purpose and action; 
religious fervor, voiced through practical channels ; indom- 
itable push : deep attachment t<> intimate friends; fine con- 
versational powers, which, while with his close intimates, 
became the medium for wit, sarcasm, fun, and a jolly ,^ood 
fellowship. 

. He was as tender of heart as a sympathetic woman, but 
when discussing wrong, or injustice, he became as hard as 
iron and as inflexible as granite. It was his sense of right 
or justice in society, which made him an abolitionist, 
when slavery dominated the country and its virus poison- 
ed the major sentiment of the world. It was his humani- 
tarianism voicing his great love, that led him after 
slavery was abolished, to defy the sentiments and usages 
of society in the South, and treat the colored man as his 
own social equal in rights. 

Gilbert Haven was a Reformer. But there are reform- 
ers and reformers, He was a radical; and staid conserva- 
tism was afraid of him. He possessed the full courage of 
his convictions, and these disclosed themselves often to 
the peril of conservative china and bric-a-brac. Hence 
his election to the episcopacy of the M. E. church filled 
his conservative colleagues with fear, and the same ele- 
ment in the church, with alarm. There was a fear that 
the old wax candles of the episcopacy and the church 



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would get 6nuffed out, melted, or broken by the the intro- 
duction of this great charge of religious dynamite into its 
councils. 

His associates in episcopal and church councils gooa 
found an element of sound common sense behind his puih, 
but they learned the full nature of Gilbert Haven only 
after they had assigned hii* to an African episcopal visi- 
tation and certain death, and then it was too late. Even 
after his return home, with that "ice shaft in his spinal 
column," as he went blazing through the episcopal circuits 
of the country, these old conservatives wondered at his 
vitality and regretted the cutting short of such a life. He 
should have lived to help guide humanity into an advanced 
life, for at least thirty more years. 

The writer knew him intimately, and waged common 
warfare with him against slavery and kindred wrongs, for 
years. And though his early release from the mortal 
brought a sense of bereavement and tears, yet his presi 
in another form and the communion arising from his wel- 
come visitations are very sweet and refreshing. It K it 
comfort to hisfriends <>n earth to know that he is now in- 
separable from ''Mary" his sweet spirit wife, whom he 
loved on earth with his deepest nature, and that his life is 
even more active for humanity than when he himself bore 
about the mortal form once so familar to his friends. 

.11 IT AS. 



Suggestions for the People. 

If the Priests and Preachers in your locality have I 
educated in the demoralizing system, based on the unend- 
ing controversy over opinions and creeds, and still refuse 
to preach the gospel of good Fruits and Deeds that J< 
taught, (See 4th Chapt. Acts.) then let the people WOlk 
out their own salvation by learning to do their own think- 
ing. The following plan is therefore suggested to promote 
moral and religious development. 

In every locality far and near, let a number of earoeet 
people confer together and select the most suitable person 



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hi the vicinity to act as a chairman of a conference for the 
exchange of thought on the following Sunday, and at the 
same time, engage some one qualified to speak on some 
moral or religious subject about fifteen minutes to be fol- 
lowed by live minute addresses from the audience, which 
time may be extended by a general desire to hear an inter- 
esting speaker. The chairman, in order to make the 
meetings orderly, should not tolerate the least unkindness 
nor any personalities. The ladies, and any strangers who 
may be present, may be given an early opportunity to speak 
on the question Belected <>n the previous Sunday. This 
day, instead of being wasted, can be made very profitable 
to all. Those who desire this intellectual culture to pre- 
pare them for the various duties of life, will have a week 
to prepare to give their best thoughts, not in the spirit of 
controversy like an ordinary debating society, but simply 
to arrive at truth, on the principle that all we are is the 
result of what we have thought and where inquiry begins 
progress commences. It is believed that the clergy, when 
they observe the good results from this way for the 
development of the people in the exercise of their God- 
given qualities, by learning them to think correctly — that 
they will encourage this moralizing and refining method 
of self culture as a means to the mental and moral im- 
provement of their congregations. 



As we cannot expect to have a perfect government until 
we recognize both sexes alike — neither shall we ever have 
a perfect religion until we utilize the wisdom of both 
worlds. 



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"What is Religion? 

Not masses nor crosses nor Catholic creeds; 
Not mumbling of aves, nor counting of heads ; 
Not church-going, psalm-singing, paying of priests, 
Attendance on sermons, prayer-meetings, or leasts; 
Nor wearing a broad brim, and plain " thou" and "the^ 
Or straight-collared coat, from the world's fashion free^ 
It is not to kneel with a long, pious face, 
Or sing solemn anthems in some holy place J 
In sect to be cradled, or on a creed nursed, 
Believing that every outsider is cursed; 
That God has in heaven ordained us to dwell, 
But left countless millions to drop into hell. 
Religion is love in the heart and the life, 
The soother of sorrow, destroyer of strife; 
The soul's best physician, relieves every pain, 
And in her dark cavern lights hope once again. 
It curses no one who has doubts of its creed ; 
It hunts up no martyrs to burn or to bleed ; 
It tells of no Devil with tortures and chains, 
No hell of unending and horrible pains. 
It seeks not to bless men by force or by fear, 
But draws them with love to a God very near. 
It tells of the right, and it whispers, Obef : 
To happiness, virtue alone is the way. 
This world it makes happy ; and then, beyond this, 
It points to another all sunny with bliss. 
Bright heaven of beauty, how fair are thy skies! 
Thou home of the good, and thou school of the wise. 

William Dc 



They come, and night is no more night, 

Pale sorrow's reign is o'er ; 
For death is but the gate of light, 

And gloomy now no more. 

Oh ! let the thought that thou art near, 
Through all my life attend ; 

Thy presence bright, my journey cheer. 
With welcome at the end. 



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A Universal Religion. 



The Foundation for the Coming Golden Age. 

It Is the Verdict of Science, Without Excep- 
tion, that Eternal Law Rules the Universe. 



To thi: Editor: — Duri] few years there has 

been much control >out (jod's chosen waj 

mankind, which has caused Dr. John P. Newman to encou 
the trne long Learning. This 

- ianity, and mere a 
usefulness to the many clu avo folio* sam- 

ple. This will en abrace their \< 

desired opportuni 

sition, an ou tha( Jesus and the apostles 

endeavor 

The people educated to the pro- 

and all-i I or magnetic 

coitV ireby mo the 

spiri; u the 2nd chapter 

of A 

e obeyed 
contn :press its own 

life, 
much i ' fested to know everything 

Arrangements 
are now many churches will have oppor- 

tunity, during the wi loved ones on the 

other side. 

An Apostoli ■ Conf r. n zed. The follow- 

ing were the opening n >y S. M. Baldwin : 

Friends of the hoped that onr coming to- 

gether may prove inning of a new <.ra for the improve- 

ment of all denomim :ofess to follow the heroic 

band who sought to lay the foundation for the long-prayed-for 
brotherhood of humanity. "We learn from the Acts of the 
Apostles that when teaching pure and undented religion, the 
common people heard them gladly, but owing to the prevail- 
ing ignorance of the apostolic age,their up-hiii work to secure 
the welcome "pearl of great price" was of short duration. 
Observing the sad experience of those who labored to bring 
co-operation between the two worlds, the spirit friends there- 



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fore abandoned any general attempt to make earth a delight- 
ful abiding place until after the settlement of the New World, 
where mankind hoped for better things. 

We learn in New England the common people again "heard 
them gladly," but by the influence of the blind clergy of that 
day, led by the authority of Moses, who said, in Ex. 22 : 18, 
<4 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," a half million of 
honest people in this country and Europe, who could not sup- 
press the various spiritual gifts they possessed, mentioned in 
the 12th chapter of Corinthians, lost their lives in endeavoring 
to bring light into the still benighted world. Our angel 
guardians again knowing how their choice instruments were 
treated by a bigoted priesthood when anxious to answer the 
old Bible question, " Jf a man die, shall he live again?" re- 
luctantly deferred their earnest desire to elevate the inhab- 
itants of earth, until after the discover}' of the magnetic 
telegraph and kindred sciences, which no doubt assisted 
in opening the eyes of the people to these important sub- 
jects. This is the first age that could really appreciate 
and understand the " tidings o* great joy" that Jesus and the 
apostles, with the aid and co-operation of the Spirit-world. 
then so faithfully endeavored to prove, was worthy of the con- 
fidence of the people; therefore, as the world grows towards 
•manhood, those that are not perverted by false teaching no 
longer destroy God's faithful messengers, who come to purify 
our homes, make our burdens lighter, and guide us, so that 
we can make the most of the primary school of existance. In 
this age of progress, we treat these sensitives or mediums very 
tenderly, so that wc may often enjoy the consolation and 
gratification derived from the great luxury of frequent visits 
.and family reunions with the dear departed. They long for 
the opportunity to make us realize the important fact that there 
is only a thin veil between the two worlds. 

it is estimated that there are several of these sensitives ia 
c\tvy large family circle, and that the numerous adherents of 
this scientific and peaceful religion would now number about 
one-half of the population of the United States, were it not for 
the blindness of most of the clergy, who do not preceive its 
great moral tendency to elevate mankind. In early ages, 
when only one in a thousand could read, and the price of a book 
being that of a good house, and when all thought the earth was 
fiat, the people were too ignorant to realize the fatal result* of 
a monopoly by frail men in wbat was called roligion. The 
apostolic age could not understand that the Allwise Creatar 
evidently intended that honest ideas and sincere opinions 



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•houid be as free as water, air ami sunlight, so that all his- 
ohildren could work out their own salvation by the friction of 
thought, which always brings wisdom. 

Jesus well knew, from his persecution by the priesthood, of 
the fearful impending demoralisation that must follow, and he 
made the clergy angry by telling the truth. As the priesthood 
are still educated to a religion founded on mere non-essential 
opinions, tins makes them continue to repeat history, and 
persecute the true followers of .Jesus, as in old times. The 
slaughter of SO many millions since that time by ignoring his 
inspired teachings, makes his truthful words in Luke 12:57, 

i. and why not of yourselves judge ye not what is right," 
a true guide for all churches henceforth. 

The time has come to so educate the people that all may 
understand the Bible, which say-: • A.dd to your faith, knowl- 
edge" of the wonderful fact tfa never alone, but sur- 
rounded by a "cloud of witnes fery thought is 
appai ed. The question is asked 
in Heb. 1 : M: [metering spirits?' 1 

ttony will fhow that angelic messengers 
have bee;. . thus proving that this 

inter-communion is not only tl. r-stone of all religions, 

but the key-note of human As we cannot expect to 

have government m jnize both sexes alike, 

neither shall a until we utilize the 

rience of promot an interest in 

the general well*: 

irit Henry Ward B lerized a lady, and 

said the following I is one of the greatest 

regrets of my earth-life that 1 did not, right, in the church, uti- 
lize what 1 knew to be true Spirin When some, of my 
people made a confidant of me, as to Boine demonstrations. 
that had occurred to themselw ,;iy, I turned them oft 
with t he feeling that L had no sympathy with them, Oh! that 
I could live on earth and be strong 

Other clergymen from the I ife, with one accords 

lament over wasted opportunities, and declare that pure .Spir- 
itualism and primative Christianity are hidentical. If the 
religious element of the world does not encourage in spirit as- 
well as letter their old platform, >k I believe in the communion 
of saints," as the means of spiritualizing the people, the State 
eventually will be compelled to do so, as an educator out from 
our present ancientized condition. This will prove to be a 
more potent factor for the prevention of crime than the pres- 
ence of huge and costly armies of trained police. 



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In the infancy of the world, when the God of Moses was 
obeyed, those who opposed the prevailing religious ideas 
were persecuted or destroyed. Jesus and his followers were 
inspired by more Liberal teachings and believed in the (rod 
of David, according to the 19th Psalm, "whose mercy endu- 
reth forever, and whose judgments age true and righteous 
altogether." We learn that the Priesthood of that day 
Strongly opposed t\i^ 1 Apostles in their endeavor to make 
one brotherhood for all humanity. 

The best people of our time worship this God who is the 
same yesterday, to-day and forever, and exclaim with 
David, u Thy testimonies are wonderful, and there is no 
language where their Voice is not heard." 

In the approaching manhood of the world, this God will 
become universally accepted by all churches and all religions. 

We now, thereforej should begin to transmit this prospec- 
tive blessed heritage for the elevation <>f our posterity. 
The substance <>f t!i" sermon on the mount is found in 
Matt. (5: 33, "lint seek ye first the Kingdom of heaven and 
its righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto 
you." 

This divine teaching is the same now as then, and. m 
in othi r words, that when tin- world shall 
ized enough by living in harmony with h 
ings. all the many bi 

bolition of war, will tl law. 

The Quakers or Fi one hundred ye 

being so much oppos 
armies, which were most ; .> many 

various lixed 

for protection at !< inhan iety. 

They were confident tl making religi 

commodity 3 resulting in tl e church from the 

simple teaching of the $p< 1 <»} eternal life and 

,' spirit, was naturally th< of this di 

Lag condition. All mus1 seethe wisdom of our forefathers, 
who wen- mostly Friends, or in thy with them, in 

forbidding tl in the formation 

of our government. 



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At many of the contending sects have at length become 
weary of the endless conflict over a religion based on opin- 
ions and creeds, which Jesus so often denounced, and are 
ridering a revision of their rule of action, and as it is hi^h 
time that the churches were in accord with the spirit of the 
SO that the millennium can he speedily ushered in. there- 
lure, if there be no objection to the following resolutions, it 
wMl be considered as adopted by the many millions of people 
whoso lives have been made miserable by endless contention 
over non-essential opinions or creeds: 

ResolotdjThnX we earnestly suggest to all religious organi- 
zations, in order to hasten the long-prayed-for golden 
the ureat importance of embodying in their fundamental plat- 
form, even at this late day, after BO much blood and treasure 
have been wasted by the contending sects, the rule that Jesus 
gave for those having true religion, recorded in Matt. 7 : 20, 
and thus follow many wise and far - men who are 

already preaching this gospel ofp 1 brotherly love, 

founded on fruits and deeds, that will secure for them pleas- 
ant memories when we shall all confer together in the higher 
life. If all branches of the church could be inspired t<> 
brace this Standard, SOONER rather than later, the twentieth 
century would begin with the true religion in place of super- 
stition, arbitration in place of war, and the rapid decline of 
everything that hinders the elevation of mankind. This 
blessed consummation can only be enjoyed by observing the 
absolute test given to his followers by the great founder of 
Christianitv : " Wherefore, by their fruita shall ye know 
them." 



The following verses from the Bible confirm modorn spirit- 
ual manifestations : 

CLAIRVOYANCE. 

Normal, Zech. v. 1, 2; Acts ix. 3, 7. 

Under Control, Books of Ezekiei and Revelation. 

Spontaneous, Gen. xxi. 17-19; 2 Kings vi. 17. 



Clairaudience, 1 Sam. iii. 1-10; 2 Kings vi. 8-12. 
Direct Voice, Ex. xix. 19 : Luke iii. 22. 
Dreams, Gen. xxxvii. 5-11; Matt. ii. 13. 
Divining Rod, Hos. iv. 12. 

HEALING. 

Healing, Acts iii. 2-7; Acts ix. 18. 

By Remedies, 2 Kings xx. 7 ; 2 Kings v. 14. 

By Fabrics, Acts xix. 11-12. 



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LANGUAGES. 

Spoken, Acts ii. 7, 8; 1 Cor. xiv. 18. 
Translated, Dan. v. 2">-28. 



Levitation, Ezek. iii. 14; Acts viii. 39, 40. 

MATERIALIZATION. 

Partial. Ezek. viii. 3; Dan. v. 5. 
Full, Josh. v. 13: Matt. xvii. 1-3. 



Mesmerism, 1 Kings xiii, 1-C; Acts xiii. 8-12. 
Movement of Objects without contact, 2 Kings vi. 4-G. 
Music. Kev. xiv. 2. 

Presentiment, 2 Kings ii. 2-7; Ezek. xxiv. 15—18. 
Resistance of Fire, Dan. iii. 26, 27. 
Spectral Appearance, Job iv. 12-17, 
Spirit Lights, Acts ii. 3; Acts ix. 3, 4. 
Trance Speaking, Num. xxiv. 2-4; 1 Sara. x. G. 
Visions. Aets x. 9-18; 2 Cor. xii. 1-4. 
Animals appear in Dan, viii. 3; Acts ix. ;»-10 
Nondescripts, Ezek. i. 4-8; Rev. ix. 3-10. 
Vehicles, 2 Kings ii. 11 ; 2 Bangs vi. 17. 
Building3, Ezek. xl. 2; Rev. xxi. 2. 

W KIT IN 

Direct. Ex. xxxii. 15, l6;2Chron. xxi. 12. 

Automatic, 1 Chron. xxviii. 11-19. 

We may say in erne word, that the parallel between the med- 
iums is complete in every particular. In the phenomena we 
have two phases which wore unknown in Bible times, viz. : 
Table movements and Psychometry. 



FROM THE SPIRIT LAND. 

The following communication appeared in the National 
View of January 10, 1891, and will illustrate thousands of 

•communications of a similar import received from the same 
source during the past winter in Washington, D.C. 



The Governing Law of the Spirit World is the Law 

OP Love, THE HAPPINESS OF OTHERS, 



The following communication in response to a question 
-addressed to his spirit father by a gentleman prominent in 
tbt legal profession of this city, was obtained at a sitting 



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in broad daylight at the residence of Dr. W. M. Keeler, 
813 Eleventh street, northwest. Tlio question, "Dear 
father, can you sign your own name?" gave no possible 
clue to the names or identity, oven had the package (contain- 
ing blank paper and small bite of graphite broken off from 
a lead pencir) oot been thoroughly sealed, which it was, 
and all the time, under the crucial supervision of the ques- 
tioner. 

In a short time permission was given to open the envel- 
op;', when the following communication, written in the 
well-known hand of the individual who signed his name in 
full, was found therein, thus amplifying the request of his 
son. The hits of pencil were still there and gave no visible 
evidence of abrasion, as if used in the writing. 

Dear Son: We understand what true happiness is. It 
eon-i thera happy, and just in proportion a.s 

they expand and develop, our wisdom increases. 

The spirits never think of themselves — no, never. They 

labor for others. ( )h, if tl of earth could know what 

joy to live for the bappirn ss of one another ! But we have 

theknowledg > not ha va physical wants to look after. 

iety is Mich that it makes men selfish. 

I am told by those who understand these things, that 
sometime the "law of love " will govern the world. This 
is the mission of the spirits— op the love principles 

in man — and every tiny rap is a wave of love from the sea- 
of eternal life, a throb of love from angel hearts. 

Many persons find their good intentions misapplied. 
They regret ir. Never regret anything you do with good 
intent. Your reward is sure. 

The' moving of a table, and rapping on the floors and 
wall of dwellings, are of greater importance than is realized 
or understood by mortals. 

They are the musical beatings of the tide of an infinite 
sea — a sea bearing upon its bosom crafts laden with rich 
gems of immortal life, gems from our beautiful land. 

It is beautiful, it is lovely, to climb the mountains and 
view our summer land. I wish I could make you under- 
stand. 

I came here with my heart full of beautiful things, but 



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I fail, I fail. Some will tell you there are no mountains^ 
no grand views, no flowers or beautiful birds. It i* 
because there is no soul of love in their hearts in which to 
produce the beautiful tendrils of truth. 

Spirits see nature, not through the senses, but through 
the spirit. We sec the human mind and its spiritual as- 
pirations before we see the human form. 

In this life, wherever our hearts are interested, there is 
our home. 

We are not circumscribed in ourf journeyings. We are 
as free as the birds that float through the air; free as the 
thoughts that come and go. 

Make your lives pure and beautiful ; enjoy all there is 
to enjoy; gather the blossoms of sympathy and kindness. 

Sympathy for humanity is the fairest and sweetest blos- 
som of the human soul. 

I send kindest love. God bless you, my son. 

" D. P. Dye. 



The Following Spirit Messages, Togetheb with 
Many Others, were Lately Received by S. M. 
Baldwin, of Washington, 1>. C, from His> 
Mother, Father and Bishop Haven: 



This meeting seems like old times to once again be with 

my dear boy. You do not know how a mother's heart goes 
out to her children. God bless you. Cornelia Baldwin. 



I have come to thank you for your zeal in distributing 
ermon. Thank.-. ihop Haven. 



I see that you are right. Let us now preach to doubter* 
the truth of eternal life and return of spirit. Father. 



You do not know what pleasure it is to be with you 8© 
often and, with you, Bing my old favorite song. Your dear 
father wishes to send his kind regards, as ever your dear 
mother, Cornelia Baldwi*. 



2tf 

The foregoing and following Spirit Messages were 
•obtained by observing a universal law, and may he dupli- 
cated by any spiritualized family, who have the required 
magnetic material explained, in a small hook published by 
Gen. V. J, Lippett, and for sale at Brentano's for 25 cents, 
at N. E. corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th St 
Washington, D. C. 

This investigation and aggitation of thought will greatly 
help to unite the two worlds, and bring to mankind the 
"greater things" promised in th<- apostolic age, when true 
and undefiled religion shall have become universal. 

The following communications were received by Dr. 
Theo, Hansmann, Washington, D. C: 
Dear sir and Brother : 

1 delight In the progress the woman's suffrage body is 
making. I believe in the emancipation <>i" the female skives 
as much as I ever did in the emancipation of the African 
•laves. Let the good work go <>n till it shall reach and free 
the theological slaves in every land. 

Your friend, 
Feb. 27, 1891. (Signed) A. Lincoln. 



For being a medium in Salem, Mass., 1028, I was burned 
at the stake, but while a whole world now stands aghast at 
'the proceeding, I am able to say that I was never more 
■mentally calm then at the moment when the flames licked 
•my quivering flesh. I died for the truth and I rejoice 
because of it. (Signed) Mary Saulshurg. 

Feb. 27, 1891. 



I wish I could preach heavenly truths in earthly place* 
ibr six weeks. 

(Signed) Howard Crosby. 
May 30, 1891. 



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The following arc the declaration of principles of the 
UNIVERSAL PEOPLE'S CHURCH 
£«oon to take the place of all others, and bring one brother- 
hood for all. The best people of this age have agreed that 
it is a debt we owe posterity, not to allow the blighting 
results of sectarian controversy to hinder the progress of 
the world any longer. 

"If doctors disagree, who shall decide ?" applies more to 
religions than medical differences, it is generally regarded 

If evident that the unity of humanity and the millenial 
era must be realized together. 

Believing — 1st. That a Benificent Power and Wise 
Intelligence pervades and controls the universe, sustaining 
towards all human beings the intimate relation of Parent, 
whose revelation is nature, whose interpreter is science, and 
whose most acceptable worship is doing good to all : 

2d. That all truth is sacred and its aul ate 

to the individual who apprehends it, hut thai while one may 
aid another in the perception of truth and duty, no one can 
l- another what is truth and i nee that 

each human being must believe and act upon individual 
responsibility. 

3d. That all action, ac 3ults in 

in joy by the op< ration of inherent laws, ph 
cal and sj 

4th. That all human beings are destined to a continued 

. for which the exper- 
iences and atti inmenl - are pre] 
and hence that it is the duty of all to perfect them 
knowli dge, w isdom, and love, by >f all 
the means obtainable for devi I and 
Lty of character, Tor aid in which. ition, 
and angelic ministrations, and spiritual gill ..ail- 
able to mankind ; 

6th. That real. .with those \vi. >;one 



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before us to the Spirit world is practicable under suitable 
conditions, and is a privilege of high value to those who use 
it wisely ; 

6th. That the human race is one family or brotherhood, 
whose interests arc forever inseparable; hencethat it is the 
duty of each individual not only i<> refrain from whatever 
would wrong or harm another, but also to live for the good 
of all, seeking especially to aid the unfortunate, the ignorant, 
the inharmonious, and the suffering of whatever race or 
condition ; 

7th. Believing, also, that the achievement of true lives 
and a nobler civilization can better be attained by associa- 
and co-operative than by merely individual action, we 
therefore agree to unite our efforts for the practical applica- 
tion of these convictions. 



Those who have not been perverted from the natural 
causes of life, by false education before they can reason for 
themselves, which many regard as a crime in the light of 
modern science, will admit, that the Friends, Shakers, Dun- 
kards, Menonites and a few sther smaller sects, are the only 
true representatives of primitive Christianity in existence 
to-dav. 



Most men by education are misled; 
They so believe because they are so bred. 
The priest continues what the nurse began, 
And so the child imposes on the man. 



For forms and creeds, let graceless bigots fright, 
They can't be wrong whose lives are in the right. 



Take courage, then, O doubting soul, 
For all that's great and good 

Will be revealed to every mind 
"When truth is understood. 



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Facts for Consideration- 



Let the fact be known everywhere, that there arc many 
old countries in the East, to whom we send Missionaries 
to save their souls, who were compelled many ages ago, to 
abolish the deadly use of tobacco from their dominions, in 
order to save the bodies of their people. 

The reason why the old and imperfect systems of medi- 
cine and theology, are in the way qf those who would 
make one brotherhood for all humanity, is because they 
were born and nurtured when the masses were uneducated, 
and as they still insist on taking authority for truth, in- 
stead of taking truth for authority as progressive people 
do. It will yet therefore take much education, and much 
up hill work to bring the world to the enlightened stand- 
ard as proclaimed by Jesus and the Apostles. 

The Church organizations who have as yet been slow to 
perceive the advantages of Meeting in Conference and 
talking over their differences, and whose environments 
prevent the work of those who are laboring to hasten the 
golden age, should be regarded as drones in the hiv 
humanity, and as wishing to continue our present misery 
in this competative society, and should he held responsi- 
ble for the demoralization involved in the old order of 
things, which the better class of thinkers have determined 
to replace with a just Bystein of co-operation, endorsed by 
the best minds in heaven and earth. 

A conference or lyceum attached t<> every church would 
soon make them bear good fruit and pure religion. 

The friction of thought, which always brings wisdom 
and spirit communion, which is now practically demon- 
strated all over the civilized world, is God's principal way 
of elevating mankind. The church having been too slow 
in recognizing this way of salvation, through the blinding 
influence of s<> many age- <.f ceremonial religion, is the 
cause of our pro-cut chaotic condition. 

Let the clergy keep on praying that God will - 
"turn and overturn the creeds" and many of US will wel- 
come the millenial era of this generation. It is hoped 
that soon all the clergy will i 3 the talented 



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worthy ami very popular Bishop John P. Newman, who is 
a "John the Baptist" for earths last great religion, the 
world has been so long learning. 

He is very anxious that his bretheren in the ministry 
should fully perceive the immense results that must fol- 
low, when the world shall really understand the gospel of 
eternal life, and angel ministrations to purify our homes. 
The Bishop is confident that this will i Lt" Panacea" 

for the final redemption of the whole human race. 

It is regarded as almost a certain fact by enlightened 
clergyman, who arc already encouraging the moral influ- 
ence of spirit communion in their congregations, that the 
foundation stone which the builders of perverted Chris- 
tianity have rejected, resulting in demoralizing • fami 

id nations, will become, in the near future, when 
the people shall be enlightened by heavenly teachings, not 
only a true guide for all churches, but the "key note 
human progress for all 3, and purifying 

thi^ planet a e "shave been. Let our friends 

all beware about committing the sin against the H 
Ghost, by rejecting our ! eavenly councillors, or abruptly 

ie to liit 
higher conditions. Those who arc wise will cordi 
thank Bishop Haven in leading us all to proffit by his 
dearly bought experience, which if accepted, will at once 
place the Christian Church in a most flourishing condition, 
and bring all its brunches to the original, pure and true 
rd. We all being in the infant class of 
life, and soon to be promoted to the happy higher grade, 
if we have don. help the general welfare, 

and thus blessed <d memories 

here and er. 

Therefore, to this end. let all read, "suggestions for the 
people" on page 15, and then go to work and help build 
up a People's Church in your locality, to absorb with some- 
thing better, all the warring factions, by which in the past 
so many millions have been destroyed, with the peaceful 
platform of the People's Church, over which there can be 
no bitter controversy, then the conditions will be made 
preparatory to the long prayed for millenial era, that will 



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in God's own time, transform our present inharmonious 
society, and make this world a most delightful abiding 
place, when there will be but one Church whose creed is 
the golden rule, one (rod, one faith and one baptism, the 
blessed baptism of God's Holy Spirit, to bring the King- 
dom of Heaven od earth. 

The Church of England having recently by a very de- 
cisive vote recognized in its higher aspects, the more mod- 
ern, scientific and progressive way of obtaining wisdom 
from those out of the body, who are all anxiously work- 
ing to make one brotherhood for all humanity. 

It is therefore highly probable, that the next general 
conference of the M. E. C, one of the most vigorous, in- 
tellectual, progressive and useful body of Christians in the 
world, will introduce for consideration, the important 
theme of u spirit communion" in its reformatory and edu- 
cational tendency, as a means for the final redemption of 
mankind from materialism, and thus practically bring im- 
mortality to light, the essence and life of Christianity and 
all true religion, for which Jesus and the Apostles gave 
their lives to secure. 



Dr. Haiismaim in Constant Communication, 
with the Departed. 



"Opposers of spiritualism may be sincere, but they- 
know nothing of what they condemn; they arc groping 
in the dark and their utterances are based on prejudice," 
were the words of Dr. Theodore Ilansmann, the well- 
known physician of 1310 I Street N, W., to a Post re- 
porter recently. 

Dr. Ilansmann has lived in Washington since 1853, and* 
up to six years ago was a pronounced skeptic OD every- 
thing relating to spiritual manifestations. Now he is an 
enthusiastic believer. He talks interestingly of the re- 
lations that come to him almost constantly from the spirit 

world. The walls of hi- cozy study arc lined with pic- 
tures of famOUS men, painted by invisible hand8. lb' has 
albums and slates pcacked away by the score, containing 



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brief communications from the most renowned people that 
ever lived, and, in many instances, apparently in their own 
handwriting. He got these through mediums, who he de- 
clares had no possible chance to do the writing them- 
selves. 

"Spirits surround us always," said the doctor, "and 
when they find one who is willing to believe and in 
thorough harmony with themselves, they love to make 
known their presence. Time* and again I have received 
word from Abraham Lincoln, and here is his picture just 
•as he now appears. See the radiant look he wears, the 
expression of intense peace and happiness, such as we can 
well believe now glorifies his face, freed as he is now from 
all the terrible strain and harassing cares that burdened 
him here. 

"Thre tinned Dr. Hansmann, "I began 

t«> obtain rodependent shite writing through Pierre Keeler, 
the medium, ami since then I have acquired at least 300 
slates full of ni' mostly through him, but many 

through Dr. Stansbury, <>f Boston, and a few from other 
mediums. In many instances the medium did not touch 
the slate during the Bitting. Many of these slates I have 
preserved. I also have a dozen or more book slates, of 
six page s each, full of spirit writing and identified by my 
private mark, put there prior \<> the performances. At the 
first trial the hook slate was placed between two folding 
slates, and in about twenty minutes was taken out full of 
writing. 

" In the absence of Mr. Keeler from Washington, I re- 
solved not long since to try a new test in spiritualistic 
writing. I took a small blank book and wrote in it a 
dedication to the memory of Queen Louisa of Prussia, 
mother of the late Emperor William. Here it is in my 
own handwriting. It is, as you. see in German script and 
dated July 4, 1891. Several witnesses were called in and 
looked at this book with the minutest care on the 6th of 
July. In their presence it was carefully wrapped, sealed, 
and addressed to Dr. D. J. Stanbury, Onset, Mass. A 
few days ago it was returned, and the witnesses were in- 
vited to attend the opening of the package at my office on 



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Sunday, the 6th of September. Accordingly at 3:30 p. m. 
it was opened in the presence of Messrs. M. C. Edson, A. 
J. Benton, D. L. Burnett, Judge S. Newton Pettis, W. H. 
Burr and Mr. Agnew. The first three were present when 
the volume had been sealed preparatory to sending off, 
and had scrutinized it closely to see that outside of the 
title page there was not a line of any sort written in the 
book. 

"Each of the six gentlemen above named was called on 
to make a close inspection, and their unanimous verdict 
was that the package had not been tampered with. It 
had come back to me precisely in the condition it was 
when forwarded to Dr. Stanbury. The Bame external 
wrapper used for sending it away was used for it> return, 
as shown by the addresses and postmarks. The incl 
package bore the five waxed seals, with the imprint of my 
own seal ring, a very peculiar one. The paper was also 
gummed very carefully, so that there was no possible way 
of opening it without tearing or cutting. Alter tins had 
been noted by us all I proceeded (o cut open the pad 
at both ends, and it was no easy task to get the little book 
free. 

"What if there should be nothing in it, after all ? The 
only intimation received from the medium at Onset was 
that the package had been kept lying on his tabic, and 
that once he had fallen into a trance, but he could n<>i 
whether any messages had been recorded or n< 

"So we opened it with feelings of some anxiety. The 
first page had this message: ' Those whose portraits ap- 
pear herein are thy friends. We send thee greeting.' 
Next came a good likeness df the Emperor William, of 
Germany. Here it is, and it is as natural as any picture 
I ever saw. On turning another leal' there was written 
'Unser Fritz/ and on the next page was his picture. 
The dedication, you will remember, was to Queen Loi 
mother and grandmother of the two EmporeJ 
that the drawings and names are in gilt and indelible. 

Look at the rest of the portraits. Here are Rudolph of 
Austria, the Empress Josephine, von Bumboldt, Goethe, 
Henry VIII, Rosccrans, Gen. Joseph E. Johnson, 



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Sweden borg, Marie Antoinette, Otto (my deceased son), 
George Combe, Anton Mesmer, and others, includis 
few unknown face-." 

The names of all those above enumerated appear along 
with the drawings, and it must be admitted that most oi' 
them look marvelouslv like autographs. No shadow of 
doubt rests on Dr. Hansmann's mind that the spirits of 
the departed affixed their own signatures. He talks of 

them as though they were his ordinary companions, and 
Goethe and Heine, though invisible to his eye, seem 
around and about him constantly, as do long departed 
friends whom lie associated with in the "fatherland" over 
half a century ago. — The Wellington Pod* 

Sunday, September 20, 1891. 



The Following Addition a i. Spirit Messages Bate 
Recently been Received by 1)k. IIansmanx. 



Dear Sir and Brother j 

Do not ever fear to speak a fact when you become con- 
scious of one. Ever remember, sir. that men have as 
much reason to tear you, as you have to fear them. I 
made a hold stroke for the liberty of the world, tor the 
example of slavery in one section, invites submission in 
another, while freedom and independence in one place is a 
harbinger of universal liberty and freedom. I have never 
regretted my acts and think no one else does now. So 
be bold with your conviction. Xo one can be too self- 
sacrificing to uphold a divine truth. 

Truly yours, 

(Signed) A. Lincoln. 



Would to God, I could be back. I would endow an 
establishment in Washington for Spiritualism. I shall be 
regretting my remissness until every vestige of the earth 
is gone, and every mortal that is now and ever is to be, is 
in the spirit world and saved. 

(Signed) W. W. Corcoran. 



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I shall never regret my early transition to the higher 
life, for the reason that I have had just that much time to 
develop the resources of my make-up in the spiritual 
kingdom. I feel as if I were now capable of teaching 
those who come over something. A president of the 
United States does not teach a people anything of prac- 
tical value. I would rather he a humble spirit of true 
mind experience, than a Haunted head of any nation on 
the face of the earth and be simply a figurehead. I am 
truly glad to know you so well, sir, and I regret that I 
did not know you in the form. I knew all about these 
things in my mortal day. I had Belle Laurie at the 
White House many times during the stormy rebellion to 
seek advice, how to proceed, from the higher realmed men, 
and I got it sir, and followed it out. Emancipation was 
born in heaven and my order came from that source, and 
I struck the blow as ordered by the invisibles, and it was 
mighty, for it was irom God. I like to be a subject. I 
like to be something less than the Master. 

(Signed) A. Lincoln. 



I am not preaching a worn out theology now. lam 
doing what little I can to propagate unadulterated truths. 
(Signed) Ernst Wilhelm HengsUnberg. 

I would give a sermon, but not within this book. I 
havetoo much to say. 

(Signed) Martin Luther. 



In the some book a: " Blessing." 

(Signed) Pius IX. 



Dear Sir : 

I &m n<»w where there are not any divisions of country 
and where former enemies meet in the glad welcome of 
friendship. 

(Signed) Joseph E. Johnston. 



I preach all the common sense I can now and ant glad 
to do so. 1 ever did the "{her thing. 

(Signed) Rev. Henry Redstone. 



S6 ■ 

I am now where justice means something. 

(Signed) S. F. Miller, 
late Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, 



I regret to see the university's action. 

(Signed) Henry Seybert. 



I told the truth in my book. 

(Signed) Leah Fox Underbill, 



Dear Doctor : 

This is an auspicious occasion indeed and I am grati- 
fied that you display such interest in this great cause. I 
always did believe in this grand truth, but had I openly 
declared it my standing would have been jeopardized. If 
I had my life to live over again, I would most assuredly 
acknowledge my belief to the world — whatever the result. 

(Signed) U. S. Grant. 



Sir and Brother: 

I am extremely pleased to meet you from time to time. 
Many may say I am gone from the preferments of mortal, 
social and political life. I can come and pay homage to 
those who were as my subjects when in mortal life, and I 
was on the throne, but, sir, those persons err for notwith- 
standing the honors shown me in my career, yet I was 
ever humble and meek in my mind. I ever knew I was 
not better than others, and I want you to know that I felt 
then as I do now. I am willing to be equal, not a slave, 
for I abhor slavery, but should I place myself on a stand- 
ing higher than some one else, then do I at that moment 
re-establish the slavery I sought to abolish. All men are 
free and equal. The God who made me, made everybody 
else. Let Him above be the one to mark the grades of 
human beings. I am with you as a brother, not a master. 

(Signed) A. Lincoln. 



I am preaching the new dispensation. 

(Signed) Henry Ward Beecher. 



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I find there can be reformations in other things beside 
religions. I find also that it is not best to be always too 
sure of an improved thing; for even though the proof 
may at the time seem adequate to warrant our unsound 
position, we may realize our mistake and injustice to those 
who oppose us in a fuller knowledge, and to our own out- 
raged senses. I am now teaching a universal religion, too 
large to be covered by the gilded roofs of modern churches. 

Truly yours, 

(Signed) John Wesley. 



The following messages were written by the hand of 
Gilbert Haven in the usual way, on a table, back of the 
curtain, and thrown over into a light room, with many 
others, to an audience of 30 people, through the Keeler 
Bros., mediumship, while at Cassadaga Lake spiritual 
camp meeting in August, '91, fifteen miles from the Chau- 
tauqua Assembly grounds, New York. 

The " greater things" promised in the apostolic age, 
are really coming to pass, and the two worlds are coming 
together. 



You are doing a double duty. The distribution of my 
pamphlet is stirring many souls. It will yet revolutionize 
the world and settle the question of a future life. 

I am happy, 

Gilbert Haven, 



I was with you at Chautauqua. I am always with you 
friend and Brother Baldwin. 

Gilbert Haven. 



This is indeed a rare treat to be here. It is hard to 
come through the heavy atmosphere. I send befit love to 
all. Haven. 



Sir: 

The only proper place naturally considered for my 1><><]v 

to rest, and where 1 desire it to be most emphatically is in 
Arlington cemetery. U. S. Grant. 



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I am here, but not able to write properly myself. I 
am a servant of vaster government than I was in earth 
life. A judge now sits on the throne who is incorruptible. 
No damnable human slavery here. 

Charles Sumner. 



I want to see the emancipation of the enslaved minds. 

Wendell Phillip 

Great God, if I oould have known of this, as I now 
know it, a week or two ago. 1 sec the obsequies with my 
own eyes over my own useless remains. Oh! Oh! what 
a remarkable incident. 

Samuel J. Randall. 

(On the day after his funeral). 

The world is my country; to do good my religion. 

Thos. Paine. 



My Friend : 

Permit me to address you for a moment that I may 
learn the method of communication, for I have a great 
work to do. r J nankimr you for this opportunity and trust- 
ing to compensate you in the future, J am, 

Your obedient servant, 

Jefferson Davis. 



Those who ore about making a disposition of their sur- 
plus wealth, and hesitate about increasing the store of 
those who already have enough, which oftener proves 
more ot a curse than a blessing, can take all their money 
with them to a better world, by the luxury of remember- 
ing how they helped to spread the valuable truths con- 
tained in this pamphlet, over the earth, and thus prepare 
the way for the ushering in of the glorious day so long 
prayed for by the best people of all ages. 



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How can you fight against God by opposing True 
Apostolic Religion for the elevation of all mankind? Re- 
vived in our time to purify Christian ty and give new life to 
the Churches, so that they can again enjoy the Holy Days of 
Pentacost, as explained in the Acts of the Apostles, and 
also embrace the moralizing tendency of God's holy spirit, 
and realize thifl true and divine way of saving the world 
from sin and misery. 

This can only be accomplished by readopting the Test 
for those having pure and undcfiled religion, recorded in 
Matt. 7-20. — "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know 
them."; also in Luke 1 12—57, "Yea, and why not ofyour- 
■elves, judge ye not what is right" also, "Ye shall know 
the truth and the truth shall m:ike you free." — "He that 
hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith to the 
ehurches. w Rev. 2-11, 17, 29; also 3rd, 13, 22. For 
"are they not all ministering spirits?" Heb. 1-14. 

The Spiritual Philosophy, spanning Science, Morality 
and Pure Religion, is God's Living Word to mankind. 

Before the oncoming light of Truth, Creeds tremble, 
Ignorance dies, Error decays, and Humanity rises to its 
proper sphere of Knowledge. 



After reading please hand this to others who wish to add 
knowledge to their faith. 



Let all secure the great wealth of choice memories here 
and hereafter by helping to circulate by the million, these 
reliable spirit messages, that will make one brotherhood and 
one religion for all Nations. 

It is self evident, that the unity of humanity and the 
Millenial Era, must be realized together. 



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